Evaluation- Q1

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 The conventions of title sequence are very important as they allow the audience to make a judgment on whether or not the film is good. I will talk about some of the conventions our title sequence used and its importance firstly our movie was of horror genre and we used ideas from the movie 'Insidious' and 'Se7en' to incorporate into our own seeing as they were both successful horror movies.

Conventions of a horror genre:
-Movie title
-Appropriate music
-characters
-cast and crew
-props
-flashback
-chase
-narration
-Mise-en-scene

Our product uses many of the usual horror conventions such as a movie title and appropriate music. The title is used in order to indicate to its audience the name of the film and what they are about to watch. this is important and a key convention in order to attract the attention of the audience and in order to engage the audience. this convention was used in our media product as we were aiming to use dramatic music in the entrance in order to build an atmosphere and create tension within the room to notify the audience that this is a horror movie.
Another convention our title sequence used was props, we used a knife and a hammer looking weapon, we did this in order to make our audience aware that this is a horror movie and violence may be involved too, we tried to create suspense by including a chase scene between our main character and the villain. this made it clear that the character was in danger therefore she was trying to escape from the villain who was ought to attack and perhaps murder her, hence why we named the movie "Escaping". We also included Mise-en-scene, the location was in our classroom however with the help of lighting and props we made the classroom look deserted and isolated which was perfect in order to make it look as if our main character (who was a young asian female) had been kidnapped.

Our media product follows a title order of....
-Production company
-Director
-Actor
-production behind the movie and finally finishes of with a title.
We decided as a group to stick to this title order as it is most common within horror movies, and seeing as the genre of our movie is horror/thriller we decided this title order would be suitable. we decided upon our title credit by looking at the title credit list in the movie 'Se7en' as we were taking inspiration from the movie.

COMPARISON BETWEEN OUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND 'SE7EN'

Draft production schedule (planning)

1st week	Scenes to film in college
FRIDAY	Teenage girl in the abandoned room
	Villain tying to harm main character
	Take different type of shots of main character and the scene (close up, extreme close up) also different shots of the props.
TUESDAY	Blogging, uploading evidence of filming (pictures)

2nd  week	Scenes to film outside of college (Hackney)
FRIDAY	The escaping scenes, the scene of the main character running away from the villain into the woods (take pictures of filming to use as evidence)
	Take different type of shots of main character and the scene (close up, extreme close up) also different shots of the props.
TUESDAY	Blogging and catching up on missed blog posts, uploading evidence of filming (pictures)

Sound design Task 29 (planning)

                                                                       SOUND 1

                                                                      SOUND 2

SOUND 3

SOUND 4

SOUND 5

Final title credits -Task 35

Final Title Credits

Producer:

PowerHouse Productions

Starring:

Saima Choudhury 

Omari Chaplin

Director:
Erykah Edevbie

Editor:

Omari Chaplin 

Sound Design: 

Rizwana Rahman 

Costume Design:
Erykah Edevbie

Scenery:
Rizwana Rahman

Final idea. -Task31

We have come to a conclusion on what our title sequence is going to be about and we are going to stick to the genre of horror as it is most suitable to our target audience and we think its will be interesting to film as theres going to be a-lot of movement within the scenes.

We have decided to name our title sequence "The Escaping".

Storyline: A teenager will be kept hostage in an abandoned location by a man who may be a serial killer. in the dark room she will be left tied up to a chair. We intend to make the scenes in the room rough by making the room dark and only using mobile light for natural effect. Soon into the title scene we will see the villain attacking the teenage girl and trying to physically abuse her with a heavy weapon, and soon she will attempt to escape, however its a big risk to take as the villain has psychological issues and is desperately eager to harm the young girl.

Target Audience Task 26 (planning)

This is one of our target audience research.

We have interviewed someone who fits in our target audience sector and that is 16-24, and wider target audience is 24-45.

Editing Task 48

In today's lesson its the 19th and we decided to get some feedback on our work from our teacher Dan.
We came to a conclusion that some of the scenes we we captured looked a bit cheap and we could improve it by re-filming, and holding the camera still.

Task 44 Final Production Schedule (Planning)

Production Schedule

Date	Time	Footage	Crew	Location
03/12/2015	20 minutes	Girls (Saima’s character) has been kidnapped. Various weapons and bloodstained props.	Saima Omari Erykah Rizwana	City and Islington 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
04/12/2015	25 minutes	The young girl’s reaction and facial expressions.	Saima Rizwana Erykah	CandI 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
06/12/2015	15 minutes	Girl running away. Scary figure appearing (Omari’s character).	Omari Rizwana Saima	Hackney Springfield Park
08/12/2015	10 minutes	The scenery of the park- bushes, shrubs trees etc.	Omari Rizwana Saima Erykah	Owens Field Park
16/12/2015	10 minutes	Close up shot of blood dripping. Close up shot of moving chair	Omari Rizwana Saima Erykah	CandI 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
05/01/2016	20 minutes	The girl’s (Saima’s character) facial expressions. Various extreme close up shots of her features.	Erykah Saima	Candi 6th Form (Dark Room)
08/01/2016	10 minutes	Various bloodstained weapons and materials.	Erykah Rizwana Omari	Candi 6th Form (Dark Room)

Task 36- Final Mise en Scene

Final Mise en Scene

Task 37- 1st Production Schedule

1st Production Schedule

Production Schedule

Date	Time	Footage	Crew	Location
03/12/2015	10 minutes	Girls (Saima’s character) has been kidnapped. Various weapons and bloodstained props.	Saima Omari Erykah Rizwana	City and Islington 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
04/12/2015	20 minutes	The young girl’s reaction and facial expressions.	Saima Rizwana Erykah	CandI 6th Form (Dark Room 333)
06/12/2015	15 minutes	Girl running away. Scary figure appearing (Omari’s character).	Omari Rizwana Saima	Hackney Springfield Park
08/12/2015	10 minutes	The scenery of the park- bushes, shrubs trees etc.	Omari Rizwana Saima Erykah	Owens Field Park